Queensland rugby league legend Wally Lewis has revealed he is facing his toughest opponent yet – a dementia diagnosis, brought on by years of head knocks across his storied football career.
aired on Sunday night, “the King” revealed he was most likely suffering from the effects of a neurodegenerative condition known as CTE .
, it was problems with short-term memory – a forgotten birthday here, a repeated story there – that sounded the alarm. “A minute later she said, ‘what are the things I asked you to remember?’ and I got two of them. Then sometime later after that she said, do you remember what they were? And I think I said bus and she looked up and yeah.As the only conclusive test for CTE was through post-mortem brain tissue analysis, Lewis would never know for certain if he was afflicted with the condition.
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